Cap.



J. S. PETHYBRIDGE.

I GAP.

APPLIGATION III-ED JUNE a, 1911.

1,022, 1 53. Patented Apr. 2', 1912 JOHN SCOTT PETHYBRIDGE, OF NEWTON ABBOT, ENGLAND.

CAP;

To all whoni. may concern: a

Be it known that I, JOHN Scor'r PETHY- nninon, asubject of the King of England,

residing at Newton Abbot, in the county of Devon, England, have invented an Improvement in Caps, of which the following is a. specification.

My invention relates to caps and the ob ject thereof is the provision of'a cap which is adjustable to fit different sized heads.

In carrying-out my invention, my improved cap preferably comprises a. body or exterior portion and a lining or interior portlon as 1s usual, and one or more tapes,- cords,;str1ngs or the like, the end or ends of which may be secured together or to different parts-of the cap in different positions to provide either'for the full-sized opening in the ea or to shir or draw up that portion of the y of the capadjacent to the opening therein to vary the size of this opening so as to make the cap adjustable to fit different heads, as will be hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawing, Figure 1: is afront elevation of my improved, cap in perspective. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan. Fig. 3 a transverse section from the front to the back, and Fig. 4 is a section similar to Fig. 3, showing a. modified form of the invention.

Referring particularly tothe drawing,

my improved cap comprises a body portion.

10 made pf cloth or any other suitable flexible material and shaped in any usual or desired. configuration. At the front the portion 10 is provided with a peak or eye-shade 11 and these parts are arranged .to be drawn over and connected the one to the other by a snap-fastener, the stud memberof which is preferably secured to the body portion of the cap as indicated at 12 and the socket member of which is secured in the peak as indicated at 13; Interiorly the body portion of the cap is provided with a lining 14 as is usual.

I preferably employs. single piece of tape 15 which is shown in the drawing to be secured atits central portion to the rear of the body member of the cap by being sewed thereto or otherwise, as indicated at 16, ad-

jacent to the edge portion forming the open-- ing.

In the front of the cap and on either side of the central portion thereof, I provide slits indicated at 17 18 and through these slits the free ends of the tape- 15 are re- Specification 6t Letters-2atent. Application filed June 8, 1911. Serial No.63 1,901.

"spectively passed;

PatentedApr, 2 1912.

provided with a seriesof stud members 20 and the other end being provided with a series of socket members-21; said stud and.

socket members forming the parts of the snap-fasteners. Preferably, and .as indicated, there are three stud members emone end of the tape being ployed in one end of the tape andtwo snap members in the other end of the tape, although 'obv1ously, any desired number of these stud and socket. members maybe emtape I5 conforms generallyto the outline of the opening in the cap and is secured in posit-ion between the body of the cap and the lining thereof adjacent to the edge-forming the opening by being passed through a sleeve 22 which is secured to either the body of the cap or the lining, or to both of these members. Now-manifestly,-- the stud mem- -ployed. Asindicated in Figs. 2 and 3, the

beis 20 in one end ofthe tape may be caused to engage any of the socket members 21 in the other end of the tape and the front of the cap secured to the peak 'byplacingin engagement the stud and socket members 12 and 13; and depending upon which of the stud and socket members 20 and 21 are in engagement, the full-sized opening in the cap may, be obtained, or the edges of the cap shirred or drawn up to effect a smaller opening. Obviously also, when the adjustment has been made and the stud and socket members 12 and.13 placed in engagement it will be impossible to detect the fact that the size of the opening or the cap is adjustable because tliose portions of the tape 15 extending through the slits 17 and 18 will be hidden from view because of being placed' between the peak and the adjacent portion of the body of the cap.

By reference to Fig. 4, it will also be seen that instead of employing a single tape 15, I may employ a pair of tapes 24, one end of each of whichmay be secured interiorly to the body of thecap in suitable positions and the free ends extended respectively through the slits in the front portionof the body ofthe cap and provided with the study and socket members as are the ends of the tape 15, or as indicated in this figure;

the free ends of the tapes 24 may beboth provided with stud members 25 adapted to engage socket members 26 placed in the peak 11, in which case of course, as will be understood, the stud members in the free ends of the tapes may be caused to engage any of the socket members inthe peak of instead of the stud members in one the ca endo the tapeengaging the socket members in the'other end of the tape. .In this instance also it will be observed that instead of employing a sleeve 22 to insure that portion of the tape witbinthe cap being malilne or t is tained in position, I may employ purpose a series of loops 27 through which the tape is threaded. f

' I claim as my invention:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a cap comprising a body portion, a peak or"eye- .that these ends of the ta e may be overlapped and connected in ifierent positions shade secured thereto, devices secured within the, body portion adjacent tov the sweatband and passing through slits in the front thereof, and means for securing ,the free ends of said devicesin difierent posi tions to vary the size of the opening in the body member and through slits in the front portion thereof, and fastening devices connected to the free ends of t-he'said tapes exteriorly of the body member of the cap so to vary the size' of the opening in the cap.

3. Asia, new article ofmanufacture, tl CflP comprising a body portion having slits on. either sideof the center in the front thereof, atape secured centrally to the interior centralback portion of the cap and having its free ends extending'through the said slits, and means 'for fasteningthe ends of the tape together in different posithwns outside the body port-ion-at the front thereof to adjust the size of the opening in the'cap body.

4. As a new article ofmanufacture,'a cap comprising a body portion having slits on either side of the center at the front thereof,

a lining'for said body portiom a tape secured centrally to the inner back portion of the ca body between the same and the lin-- ing, the free ends'of the tape extending through the said slits in the front portion of the capbody, means for securing the tapein position between the body portion and lining adjacent to the opening in-the body'po'rtion, and means for SECHIIIIO' the free ends of the tape together at different positions exteriorly of'the body ortion at the front thereof to vary the size of the opening in the said body portion ot't-hev ca v I .i

gigned by me this 25th day of May 1911. JOHN so'o'r'r PETHYBRIDGE. Witnesses:

W. HANNAH, c "JOHN JOLLY Srrerrmns. 

